Posts Tagged ‘Economics – Finance’

Brett Scott is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (Pluto Press, 2013), a guide to the world of high finance and the emergent forms of alternative finance, alternative currencies and economic activism that are challenging it.

John Thackara, a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art in London, travels the world in a continuous
search for live examples of what a sustainable future can be like. He writes about these stories at his blog,
thackara.com, and in books, and advises cities, companies, and institutions.

Steve Sitao Xu is Chief Representative of the Economist Group in China, China Director of Global Forecasting of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Director of Advisory Services for the Economist Corporate Network in China.

Stéphane Garelli is a Professor at both the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the world’s leading business schools, and at the University of Lausanne. He is also a director of IMD’s World Competitiveness Center where his research focuses on how nations and enterprises compete on International markets.

Haiyan Wang is Managing Partner of the China India Institute, a Washington DC based research and advisory organization with a focus on creating winning global mindset, strategies and organizations that leverage the transformational rise of emerging markets, foremost China and India. She has also been an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD.

Joseph Stiglitz Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, Professor of Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Former World Bank Chief Economist is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists and international institutes such as the International Monetary Fund. He is one of the most frequently cited economists in the world and is one of the most sought-after thinkers about the future of the world economy.

Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is the enfant terrible of the new world of business. He writes books and articles and reads everything from Playboy to Architectural Digest to Pinter. His performances are high touch, dynamic, highly interactive, thought provoking and always in line with the times. The 36 business thinker in the world (along with Jonas Ridderstråle) in 2011 in ‘Thinkers50’, his dynamic style makes him a highly appreciated speaker throughout the world.